downsize
英 ['da?nsa?z]
美['da?nsa?z]
- vt. 以較小尺寸設計；縮小尺寸；裁減人數
IELTS
詞態變化
第三人稱單數:?downsizes;過去式:?downsized;過去分詞:?downsized;現在分詞:?downsizing;名詞:?downsizing;
英文詞源
- downsize (v.)
- 1986 in reference to companies shedding jobs; earlier (1975) in reference to U.S. automakers building smaller cars and trucks (supposedly a coinage at General Motors), from down (adv.) + size (v.). Related: Downsized; downsizing.
雙語例句
- 1. Sales have decreased so much that they need to downsize.
- 銷售業績減少很多,所以他們必須縮小規模.
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- 2. He will downsize the executive board of the three divisions.
- 他將縮小三家公司的執行董事會.
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- 3. The company chose to downsize and more fully utilize the remaining workers.
- 公司決定縮小規模,并更加充分地用好余下的工人.
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- 4. And as businesses decentralize and downsize, information systems follow suit.
- 并且隨著企業的分散化和小規模化, 信息系統也產生同樣的變化.
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- 5. Free - market reforms have moved governments everywhere to downsize, deregulate, and privatize.
- 自由市場改革正促使各地政府縮小規模, 解除管制, 搞私有化.
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